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Object description

image: A roadside memorial; an angel on a plinth. Behind is a grassed area, parking and a large Tesco
supermarket.

Physical description

Framed cibachrome photograph.

Label

This image is from a series of photographs of First World War memorials that Harrison took as he travelled in Britain. The unsentimental images explore the relationship between these shared markers of collective or personal memory and their surroundings. Frequently the images highlight the incongruity of the juxtaposition between past and present, the monuments surrounded by more recent buildings, overgrown greenery and street furniture, emphasising the passage of time. Often the banality of the surroundings sits uncomfortably with the gravity of the events memorialised, suggesting the fading of collective memory and dwindling recognition of these previously resonant structures.